Arthur Crucq
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. A.K.C. Crucq
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6275
- a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8307-9663
Arthur Crucq is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Arthur Crucq
Fields of interest
- Cognitive, material, and representational aspects of geometric ornament
- Empirical approaches to art history
- Art, agency, and emotional response
Description of my research
My current research involves theories of ornament and decorative patterns and how they relate to cognitive psychological research on pattern production and perception. I am particularly interested in Gottfried Semper’s (1803–1879) style theory, and how within that theory the practice of weaving was conceived as a fundamental craft by which decorative patterns would naturally emerge from the combination of physical, technical, material, and cognitive skills; as such, it should be conceived as being partially shaped by these factors.
I am also interested in the way that patterns (such as those created by weaving) are theorized from the perspective of being rudimentary forms of representation, and the implications of this for theories on representation in general, such as the theory of linear perspective.
I have also recently used eye tracking in my research. The possibilities and limitations of empirical methods in raising new art historical questions and/or gaining new insights into art historical problems is a fundamental question addressed in much of my research.
CV
2017-present
University lecturer
2017-2018
Fellowship Lab for Cognitive Research in Art History, department of Art History, University of Vienna
2013-2017
PhD Researcher: 'Universal decorative patterns and geometric core knowledge'. This research was part of the subproject ‘Visual Arts and Geometry’ of the NWO-funded ‘Horizon Knowledge and Culture’ research project (Supervisors: Prof dr. C.A. van Eck, Prof dr. J.E.C.V. Rooryck)
2013
Ted Meijer Price Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
2010-2012
ReMA Art and Literature. Thesis: ‘The Sensuous Virtue: Emotional response to Bernini’s Charity on the Tomb of Urban VIII’ (Supervisor: Prof dr. C.A. van Eck)
2006-2010
BA Art History. Thesis: ‘Naturalistische weergave van natuur en natuurfenomenen op de Doop van Christus van Gerard David’ [‘Naturalistic representation of nature and natural phenomena on Gerard David's Baptism of Christ] (Supervisor: drs. N.L. Bartelings)
Teaching Activities
Freshman's Class/Werkcollege Academische Vaardigheden I: kennismaken met de wetenschappelijke bestudering van kunst (BA kunstgeschiedenis)
Freshmans’s Class/Academic Skills I seminar: On the Scholarly Study of Art and its History (BA Art History track, Arts, Media & Society)
Academische Vaardigheden II (Kunstgeschiedenis): Zoeken, schrijven, en presenteren (BA kunstgeschiedenis)
Academic Skills II (Art History): Searching and Processing Information, Writing, and Oral Presentation (BA Art History track, Arts Media & Society)
Topical Course: Artist's Writings - three lectures on 20th/ 21st century writings (BA kunstgeschiedenis/Arts Media & Society)
Seminar Bachelor Eindwerkstuk (Kunstgeschiedenis)
One seminar in Perspectieven op kunstwetenschappelijk onderzoek en de beroepspraktijk
Thesis Seminar Arts and Culture (MA Arts and Culture)
One seminar in Practices and Debates (MA Arts and Culture)
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- KG Moderne beeldende kunst
- Crucq A.K.C. (2022), Bound to infinity: the miraculous nature of patterns. In: Haak C. van der, Jap Sam E. & Boere R. (Eds.) Celebrating patterns. Prinsenbeek: Jap Sam Books. 13-17; 257-270.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2021), Bezielde stenen en grootse tempels: Erfgoedbeleid in Nederlands-Indië, Indies Tijdschrift (2): 20.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2021), Viewing-patterns and perspectival painting: an eye-tracking study on the effect of the vanishing point, Journal of Eye Movement Research 13(2).
- Crucq A.K.C. (2021), Double “class”: on the popularization of Dr. Martens, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture 31: 1-43.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2021), How conceptions of heritage collided: local responses to statues and sites on Java in the 1910s and 1920s. In: O'Farrell H. & Keurs P. ter (Eds.) Museums, collections and society: yearbook 2021. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 103-120.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2020), Space, place and the imagined urban community: Sara Vrugt’s textile installations, User Experience & Urban Creativity 2(1): 24-40.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2020), Sustainable architecture: meditations on new repertoires of forms. In: Warda, J. (Ed.) Beyond Bauhaus: New Approaches to Architecture and Design Theory. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net. 131-154.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2019), De Tombe van Urbanus VIII: over leven, liefde en dichtkunst, Roma Aeterna 7(1): 84-95.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2019), Het kunstenaarsboek als interdisciplinair kunstwerk: recente voorbeelden uit Nederland. In: Alsemgeest A., Bergen S. van, Claeyssens S., Deinsen L. van, Duijn M. van, Kuipers A., Netten D. van, Wouts D., Zanen S. van (Eds.) Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis. no. 26 Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt. 181-197.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2019), Materiality, Representation and Cognition: A Reconsideration of Gottfried Semper's Emphasis on Weaving as a Fundamental Craft. In: Dogramaci Burcu (Ed.) Textile Moderne/ Textile Modernism. no. 3 Vienna Cologne Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. 23-29.
- Crucq A.K.C. (17 May 2018), Abstract patterns and representation: the re-cognition of geometric ornament (PhD thesis. LUCL/ LUCAS, Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Eck, C. van; Rooryck, J.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2018), Terug naar de werkplaats!. In: Jong J. de, Marion O. van, Rademaker A. (Eds.) Vertrouw mij! Manipulaties van imago. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 203-209.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2018), Van Verlichting naar verluchting. In: Jong J. de, Marion O. van, Rademaker A. (Eds.) Vertrouw mij! Manipulaties van imago. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 130-134.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2017), Grafiek en de hybride kunstpraktijk, Raam : grafiekmagazine [VOG] 17(1): 22-29.
- Crucq A.K.C. (2012), Never mind the bullets. In: Essaidi Jalila (Ed.) Bulletproof skin : exploring boundaries by piercing barriers. Eindhoven: Essaidi, Jalila. 54-61.
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